| Our maths department consists of 3 staff that all verge on
the edge of madness (Valda, John and Anita).
We strongly believe in logic development through play
and spend many afternoons playing games such as Rush Hour,
Blokus
and GoGetter (visit the www.happypuzzle.co.uk to purchase
these and other games), whilst our ‘s’ students
enjoy working in the cafe area or exploring sand.
Each year the year 9’s run a maths trail for the lower
school and also for y6’s from local primary schools.
This is good fun for the younger students but is actually
run to improve the mathematical and communication skills
of the older pupils.
We do, obviously, cover the more ‘academic’ side
of maths and all of our students leave with an external accreditation
ranging from AQA units, through Entry levels to GCSE’s.
We are fortunate in possessing interactive whiteboards to
support are lessons and also using software such as Primary
maths to stimulate the students.
As part of our technology college targets we run maths days
with Y6 students from our feeder schools and this has the
added advantage of improving partnerships with our local
network of schools and has provided works experience placements
for our KS4 students.
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